Overview Welcome to the study of cost accounting. This introductory chapter explains the intertwining roles of managers and management accountants in choosing an organization’s strategy‚ and in planning and controlling its operations. Unlike the remainder of the textbook‚ this chapter has no “number crunching.” Its main purpose is to emphasize the management accountant’s role in providing information for managers. Review Points organization. Cost accounting provides information
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pre-determined cost structure to account for and control expenses. WaMu primarily realizes transaction costs‚ fixed costs‚ and variable costs. Because WaMu doesn’t provide free services per-say‚ the sunk costs of the structure are fairly minimal. Transaction costs constitute the next smallest portion of WaMu’s cost structure. WaMu is free of infrastructure based transaction costs like those that smaller retailers who use point of sale services might incur. The primary transaction costs are the commissions
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Historical Cost Mean? A measure of value used in accounting in which the price of an asset on the balance sheet is based on its nominal or original cost when it was acquired by the company. The historical-cost method is used for assets in the United States under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). Cost concepts and terms 1. Cost The amount of expenditure (actual or notional) incurred on or attributable to a specified article‚ product or activity is referred to as cost. 2
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Dynamic Business Environment 1-1 Chapter 2 Basic Cost Management Concepts 2-1 Chapter 3 Product Costing and Cost Accumulation in a Batch Production Environment 3-1 Chapter 4 Process Costing and Hybrid Product-Costing Systems 4-1 Chapter 5 Activity-Based Costing and Management 5-1 Chapter 6 Activity Analysis‚ Cost Behavior‚ and Cost Estimation 6-1 Chapter 7 Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis 7-1 Chapter 8 Variable Costing and the Costs of Quality and Sustainability 8-1 Chapter 9 Financial
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Latasha Thomas January 20‚ 2013 HSM 260 Jerome Anderson Exercise 10.1 Recompute fixed costs‚ variable costs‚ and the BEP. What are the variable costs? What are the fixed costs? How many meals will the WHDM program need to provide during the fiscal year to reach the BEP? How much profit will the program earn if it completes its 45‚000-meal contract with the City of Westchester? The variable cost of service is $3.93 during the fiscal year the WHDM should provide 1‚011 meals to reach their
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2-22 Variable costs and fixed costs. Consolidated Minerals (CM) owns the rights to extract minerals from beach sands on Fraser Island. CM has costs in three areas: a. Payment to a mining subcontractor who charges $80 per ton of beach sand mined and returned to the beach (after being processed on the mainland to extract three minerals: ilmenite‚ rutile‚ and zircon). b. Payment of a government mining and environmental tax of $50 per ton of beach sand mined. c. Payment to a barge operator. This
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Cost of Capital Definition: cost of capital is the rate of return that a company must earn on its project investments to maintain its market value and attract funds. The cost of capital to a company is the minimum rate of return that is must earn on its investments in order to satisfy the various categories of investors‚ who have made investments in the form of shares ‚ debentures and loans. The cost of capital in operational terms refers to the discount rate that would be used in determining the
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Cost estimation is a fundamental aspect of managerial/cost accounting (Datar et al. 2008; Eldenburg and Wolcott 2005). The cost predictions are used in each of the management functions. for example used to predict costs so that management can determine the desirability of alternative options and to budget expenditures‚ profits‚ and cash flows. The objective is to support students in learning how to apply regression analyses to understand cost behavior and forecast future costs using real data from
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Analysis of Costs Costs affect input choices‚ investment decisions‚ and even the decision of whether to stay in business. A. Economics analysis of costs 1. Total cost: fixed and variable (1) Total cost represents the lowest total dollar expense needed to produce each level of output q. TC rises as q rises. (2) Fixed cost represents the total dollar expense that is paid out even when no output is produced. FC is unaffected by any variation in the quantity of output. (3) Variable cost represents
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Transportation Cost & Pricing Transportation Cost & Pricing Compare and contrast the cost structures of rail‚ motor carriers‚ and air. When you compare the rail cost structure to that of the cost structures of the motor‚ and air carriers‚ you will see that the rail carriers have a high structure cost. “One of the characteristics of railroads as previously noted is the level of fixed costs present in their cost structures.” (Coyle‚ 2011) These fixed cost exists because the ownership of
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